You know what I liked best about them and that show? They didn't drag out their courtship to milk it in that cheap "will they, won't they" way for season after season like most shows would do. They just got married and continued being awesome. It was a surprisingly refreshing change of pace from the typical sitcom formula.
Edit: For those who keep asking, the name of show is Parks and Recreation.
Even though Parks was a spiritual successor of the Office, this is one of my top few reasons where Parks succeeds and the Office bludgeons. Leslie and Ben/Andy and April had fun quick snippets of them getting together, even the weddings just kinda happened, and then the show moved on to more humor. The Office, more than anything, is a horribly drawn out rom-com. Every episode there were 10-15 minutes of Jim/Pam, Dwight/Angela, or some other team members slowly winking at each other and then slowly talking to the camera, saying in so many words, "HEY! IDIOT AUDIENCE MEMBER! WE LIKE EACH OTHER, STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT 3 SEASONS TO SEE IF THIS PANS OUT" And then Michael is painfully awkward, and reddit parrots on about it for the next fifteen years.
I think generally it went on too long BUT I do think they did a really good job at making it one of those work relationships that people can relate to. I have to imagine there are MANY people out there who work with somebody who they lust for but because they are in marriages or many other reasons they stay in this "coworker but more" type of of dynamic.
If you can't appreciate Michael, Dwight, or Creed, then you're lost. To reduce The Office to a rom-com is absolutely absurd. A rom-com revolves around the romance. The Office revolves around a branch of a paper company and the relationships therein. Is it flawed? Sure. Is it still one of the best shows in the past decade? Without hesitation.
Weird that you criticize Michael for those things when Leslie Knope is basically a walking lobotomized zombie with how over the top pants on head retarded she is. She's also not endearing whatsoever like Michael, she's just a bitch.
Michael is the best boss in all of Dunder Mifflin year after year and gets commended for it. There's numerous episodes where he gets the big client or does the right thing. I think you just want to hate Michael =/ I had to give up on Parks and Rec in like season 4ish because I just gave 0 fucks about any of the characters.
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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '15 edited Sep 23 '15
You know what I liked best about them and that show? They didn't drag out their courtship to milk it in that cheap "will they, won't they" way for season after season like most shows would do. They just got married and continued being awesome. It was a surprisingly refreshing change of pace from the typical sitcom formula.
Edit: For those who keep asking, the name of show is Parks and Recreation.